Andrea Camilleri 1

Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri ( Porto Empedocle , Sicily , September 6 , 1925 ), is
an Italian screenwriter, theater and television director and novelist.

Biography
Between 1939 and 1943 he studied at the classical high school
Empedocle di Agrigento where he obtained, in the second half of 1943,
his diploma. In 1944 he enrolled in the Faculty of Letters, he did not
continue his studies, but began to publish stories and poems. He also
joined the Italian Communist Party .
Between 1948 and 1950 he studied Direction at the Silvio d'Amico
Academy of Dramatic Art and began working as a director and
librettist. In these years, and until 1945, he published stories and
poetry, winning the "St. Vincent."
In 1954 he successfully participated in a competition to become an
official in the RAI , but was not employed due to his communist status.
However, he would join RAI a few years later.
In 1957 he married Rosetta Dello Siesto, with whom he would have 3 daughters. In 1958 he began teaching at the
Experimental Cinematography Center in Rome. For forty years he was a screenwriter and director of theater and
television. Camilleri began with a series of montages of works by Luigi Pirandello , Eugène Ionesco , T. S. Eliot and
Samuel Beckett for the theater and as producer and co-writer of Simenon 's Inspector Maigret series for Italian
television or the Adventures of Lieutenant Sheridan, which became very popular in Italy.
In 1978, he made his debut in fiction with The Course of Things ("Il corso delle cose"), written 10 years earlier and
published by a paid editor: the book was a failure.
In 1980 he published in Garzanti A thread of smoke ("Un filo di fumo"), the first book in a series of novels set in the
imaginary Sicilian city of Vigàta, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1992 he resumed writing after a 12-year hiatus and published The Hunting Season ("La stagione della caccia") in
Sellerio Editore: Camilleri became a highly successful author and his books, with successive reissues, sold an
average of 60,000 thousand copies each.
In 1994 , The Shape of Water ("La forma dell'acqua"), the first novel in the series starring Commissioner
Montalbano (a name chosen as a tribute to the Spanish writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán ), was published. Thanks
to this series of detective novels, the author becomes one of the most successful writers in his country. The character
becomes a national hero in Italy and has starred in a television series supervised by its creator.
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Plays
Books
• 1959 , I theater stabili in Italia (1898-1918)
• 1978 , Il corso delle cose ( The Course of Things )
• 1980 , Un filo di fumo ( A thread of smoke )
• 1984 , La strage dimenticata
• 1992 , La stagione della caccia ( The Hunting Season )
• 1993 , The Companion Ball
• 1995
• Il gioco dellafly
• Il birraio di Preston (Vigàta's opera)
• 1998 , La concessione del telefono (Società dei Lettori Award, Lucca-Rome; The concession of the telephone )
• 1999 , La mossa del cavallo ( The Movement of the Horse )
• 2000
• La scomparsa di Patò ( The Disappearance of Patò )
• Biography of the changed son ( Biography of the changed son )
• Favole of the Tranto
• 2001
• Racconti quotidiani
• Gocce di Sicilia (stories)
• Il re di Girgenti
• Le parole raccontate. Piccolo dizionario dei theatrical terms
• 2002
• L'ombrello di Noè. Memories and conversations in the theater
• The palm line. Saverio Lodato fa raccontare Andrea Camilleri
• Le inchieste del Commissario Collura
• 2003
• The Macallè Dam ( The Capture of Macallè )
• Theater
• An Italian winter (with Saverio Lodato - BUR)
• 2004 , Romanzi storici e civili
• 2005
• Privo di titolo ( Private of title )
• Il medaglione
• Il diavolo - Tentatore/Innamorato
• 2006
• La pensione Eva ( The Eva Pension )
• I saw Montalbano, Interviste
• 2007
• Scelte page of Luigi Pirandello
• Il colore del sole ( The color of the sun )
• Le pecore e il pastore ( The Sheep and the Shepherd )
• Boccaccio - The novel by Antonello da Palermo
• Voi non sapete. Gli amici, i nemici, la mafia, il mondo nei pizzini di Bernardo Provenzano ( You don't know ,
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about the Sicilian mafia)

• Maruzza Musumeci ( The Mermaid's Kiss )
• 2008
• Il tailleur grigio ( The Gray Suit )
• Il casellante ( The Barrier Guard )
• The Vucciria
• The death of Amalia Sacerdote , II RBA Prize for Black Novel 2008
• 2009
• A sabato, with gli amici
• Il sonaglio (The Girl with the Jingle Bell)
• Il cielo rubato - Renoir Dossier
• The triple life of Michele Sparacino
• La rizzagliata (original in Italian language of The Death of Amalia Sacerdote )
• An Italian winter (with Saverio Lodato - Chiarelettere)
• A Sicilian onorevole, the parliamentary interpellanze of Leonardo Sciascia
• Troppu trafficu ppi nenti (with Giuseppe Dipasquale)
• Il naso (The nose). (children's literature)
• 2010
• Il nipote del Negus
• L'intermittenza
• Say testa nostra. Cronache con rabbia 2009-2010 (with Saverio Lodato - Chiarelettere)
• 2011
• The coin of Akragas
• Great Circus Taddei and other stories of Vigàta
• The set of angels
• I ghost
• Giudici (Il giudice Surra) (with Giancarlo De Cataldo and Carlo Lucarelli)
• 2012
• I l diavolo, certainly '
• The Regina of Pomerania and other stories of Vigàta
• Inside the labyrinth
• Capodanno in giallo (with Esmahan Aykol, Gian Mauro Costa, Marco Malvaldi, Antonio Manzini, Francesco
Recami)
• 2013
• Il tuttomio
• The revolution of the moon
• Eat the thought
• Ferragosto in giallo (with Gian Mauro Costa, Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, Marco Malvaldi, Antonio Manzini,
Francesco Recami)
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Montalbano series
• 1994 – La forma dell'acqua (in Spain, The Shape of Water )
• 1996 – Il cane di terracotta ( The Terracotta Dog )
• 1996 – Il ladro di merendine ( The Snack Thief )
• 1997 – La voce del violino ( The Voice of the Violin )
• 1998 - A month with Montalbano (stories; A month with Montalbano )
• 1999 - Gli arancini di Montalbano (stories; Montalbano's New Year's Eve )
• 2000 - The gita to Tindari ( The excursion to Tindari )
• 2001 – L'odore della notte ( The Smell of the Night )
• 2002 - La paura di Montalbano (The Fear of Montalbano )
• 2002 - Story of Montalbano. (stories)(Stories of Montalbano)
• 2003 - Il Giro di Boa (A Decisive Turn)
• 2004 - La pazienza del ragno ( The Patience of the Spider )
• 2004 - La prima indagine di Montalbano (stories) The first case of Montalbano )
• 2005 – La luna di carta ( The Paper Moon )
• 2006 - La vampa d'agosto ( Burning of August )
• 2006 – Le ali della sfinge] ( The Wings of the Sphinx )
• 2007 – La pista di sabbia ( The sand track )
• 2008 – Il campo del vasaio ( The Potter's Field )
• 2008 – L'età del dubbio ( The Age of Doubt )
• 2008 - Racconti di Montalbano Stories from Montalbano. (stories)
• 2008 - Il Commissario Montalbano - Le prime indagini. (The first case of Commissioner Montalbano). (stories)
• 2009 - The dance of the gabbiano ( The Dance of the Seagull ).
• 2009 - Ancora three investigations by commissioner Montalbano. (Three more cases from Commissioner
Montalbano). (stories)
• 2010 – La caccia al Tesoro ( The Treasure Hunt ).
• 2010 - Acqua in bocca (in collaboration with Carlo Lucarelli ). ( By the mouth dies the fish )
• 2010 - Il sorriso di Angelica (Angelica's Smile ).
• 2011 - Il gioco degli specchi ( The Mirror Game ).
• 2011 - Altri casi per il commissario Montalbano ( Other cases of Commissioner Montalbano ).
• 2012 - A lama di luz
• 2012 - Una voce di notte
• 2013 - A viper covo
• ? - Riccardino http://it. wikipedia. org/wiki/Andrea_Camilleri#cite_note-19

Audiobooks
• Camilleri legge Montalbano , Milan 2002
• Un filo di Fumo , read by Fiorello , Rome 2006
• Il nipote del Negus , Rome 2010

Others
• Andrea Camilleri - Italo Insolera , L'occhio e la memoria: Porto Empedocle 1950 , Palombi & Partner, Rome
2007, ISBN 9788860600899
• Mariantonia Cerrato, L'alzata d'ingegno: analisi sociolinguistica dei romanzi di Andrea Camilleri, Franco Cesati
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Editore, Firenze, 2012 ISBN 9788876674419

external links
• The sand track. Critical review [1]

References
[1] http:// web. archive. org/web/http://www. book review. com/intriga-y-conspiracion/la-pista-de-arena-andrea-camilleri/
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